The pizza fanatics of Naubinway

Feb 22, 2025 | Community

By Claire Oven Jeremy Loebach has always been a fan of the pizza business. While his high school sweetheart, Deanna, was at college, Jeremy worked for a small Italian restaurant called Pepinos, where he developed his love for pizza. Jeremy saved all his money from...

Sherbrook named 2025 NCF Officer of the Year

Feb 20, 2025 | Community

Robert Sherbrook was selected as Newberry Correctional Facility’s 2025 Correctional Officer of the Year. Officer Sherbrook began his career with the Michigan Department of Corrections on October 3, 2021. He received the Jack Budd Award while in the Ken McKee Class at...

Where are they now? Dennis Walker

Feb 18, 2025 | Community

We caught up with 2002 Newberry High School graduate Dennis Walker, who is now retired from the Air Force and living in Alaska. With Carol Stiffler When did you graduate from Newberry High School, and what were you involved in while you were there? I graduated in 2002...

Book club can be your alibi

Feb 15, 2025 | Community

By Carol Stiffler What are you doing on February 27? Do you know where you’ll be? Who will you be with? You have been cordially invited to attend the inaugural meeting of Book Club is My Alibi, a brand new book club making its debut on Thursday, February 27. The club...

Shelter cats won’t share Super Bowl prediction

Feb 7, 2025 | Community

By Donna Hamilton Spoiler alert: Super Bowl 59 is going to be a nailbiter The never-wrong shelter cats at the Luce County Animal Shelter revealed their Super Bowl LIX prediction following a tense taste test session wherein they refused to select a Super Bowl winner....

4-H is more than raising livestock

Jan 31, 2025 | Community

By Tracie Abram 4-H clubs are more than raising livestock.  Tracie Abram, the Mackinac County 4-H Program Coordinator, and Ashley Freed, Luce County 4-H Program Coordinator, would like to raise your awareness about what 4-H is.  4-H is a national program that is part...